Bread, peace and the attrition of power: Economic events and German election results

Arbeitspapier

Aggregate votes for incumbent parties in post-war Germany were determined by the weighted-average growth of real per capita disposable income. Each percentage point of per capita real disposable income growth sustained over the legislative term yielded approximately two percentage points of votes in Germany. No other economic variables add value or significantly perturb the coefficients of our model. However, attrition of power reduced the vote share in election years 1961, 1994 and 1998.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Economics Department Working Paper Series ; No. 3

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government ; Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
• Subject: bread and peace model ; elections ; vote share ; real per capita disposable income growth

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Batool, Irem ; Sieg, Gernot
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
• (where): Braunschweig
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51312
• URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:084-24452
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET